US4400980A - Method and device for detecting changes in the mechanical state of the members of a structure implanted in the sea - Google Patents
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- the invention relates to methods and devices for detecting changes in the mechanical state of the members of a structure implanted in the sea, and in particular immersed members.
- the term member is used in its general meaning to designate the different elements of a structure which may be composed of girders, section irons, tubes or bars.
- the technical field of the invention is that of the construction of devices for controlling the mechanical state of structures, such as for example sea platforms.
- Methods are known for checking structures for vibrations, which consist in mechanically exciting a structure in specific and perfectly reproducible conditions, measuring each time the exciting signals and the dynamical response of the different elements of the structure, processing these measurements to deduct therefrom a transfer function which is a ratio of the response signal to the exciting signals, and repeating these measurements at intervals.
- a particularly advantageous application of these methods is the periodical control of the mechanical state of immersed metallic structures supporting oil rigs or drilling platforms subjected to an aggressive surrounding medium either by corroding, or by fatigue due to the repeated action of the swell. Serious accidents are known to have happened in which such platforms have broken down or capsized, and it is most important to find methods and devices that are efficient and as inexpensive as possible to control regularly the mechanical state of these structures and thus prevent accidents, ensure the safety of the personnel on board and prevent any serious risks of sea pollution.
- a dynamical excitation signal f(t) can be measured during a time interval T, which signals varies and can be for example a pressure, a force or a movement, and a dynamic response signal x (t) which may be for example an acceleration, a speed, a shift or a position.
- the time T is long enough for the excitation and response signals to be completely damped.
- the structure can be excited overall and the response of certain members can be measured individually.
- each member to be tested is excited individually and locally by subjecting it to impacts.
- the response signal of a member depends on the point at which it is measured.
- the response of one member is measured advantageously in the same point, or in a point very close to the point, where the member is excited.
- the dynamic signals of excitation f(t) and of response x(t) are processed to obtain a transfer function.
- a FOURIER transform is applied to the excitation and response signals, that is to say that for every frequency ⁇ , the following complex functions are calculated: ##EQU1## as well as conjugated functions F( ⁇ ) and X( ⁇ ).
- the transfer function H( ⁇ ) is a complex function which is dependent on the frequency and of which the modulus has a maximum or peak for each fequency corresponding to a resonance of the structure member of which the response is being measured.
- a mechanical defect such as for example a crack, appearing on a structure member causes a progressive change in the natural frequencies which change causes the peaks of the transfer function to shift.
- the dynamical control methods have so far been used by subjecting the entire structure to one or more mechanical impacts or perturbations and by measuring the responses of the different members of the structure. With this method, the excitation must have sufficient energy to shake the whole structure.
- a hydraulic jack resting on one fixed point anchored in the ground, which jack applies a variable force to the structure.
- Such an apparatus cannot be used at sea.
- Another jack has also been used, one part of which is integral with the structure to be excited, while the other part is integral with a movable mass.
- the jack imposes a relative movement between the movable mass and the structure and exerts on the latter a variable force due to the effect of inertia of the movable mass.
- a heavy movable mass weighing between 1,000 and 3,000 kg. The weight and overall dimensions of such an apparatus makes it unusable under water to check immersed structures.
- An object of the present invention is to propose relatively light and inexpensive means to readily effect frequency measurements of excitation and dynamical response on the different elements of a structure and in particular of an immersed structure, and to accurately locate those members of the structure on which defects have appeared which could seriously affect the solidity of the structure.
- a further object of the invention is to propose excitation devices and devices for measuring the excitation and response signals of certain members of an immersed structure, reasonably sized and inexpensive to produce so that they can be permanently fitted on the elements to be checked and that the excitations and measurements are done always in the same points and in perfectly identical conditions. Also with this solution the excitation and measurment devices are connected to the surface and a checking means is always available on platforms, to conduct frequent checks without high costs being involved since there is no longer the need to call on the services of divers to go under water to fit the measuring devices on the different members of the structure every time a control has to be made.
- a method according to the invention for detecting any alterations in the mechanical state of the members of a structure situated in the sea, and in particular immersed members consists in the following operations:
- each member is excited individually in one point by subjecting it to impacts;
- the excitation signals and the dynamical response signal are recorded simultaneously for each member over a long enough period for them to be completely damped;
- the simultaneous excitation and response signals having the same frequency are processed and a ratio is defined, which ratio varies with the frequency and presents peaks corresponding to the natural frequencies of resonance of the member;
- a device for detecting changes in the mechanical state of the members of a structure implanted in the sea; immersed members in particular, comprises:
- a device for mechanically exciting the said member which is rigidly secured in one point of the latter and comprises means for applying impacts to said member;
- a first pick-up incorporated to the said impact-applying means, which picks up the force of the impacts to which the member is subjected;
- the mechanical excitation device comprises a double-acting jack whose piston is connected by a rod to a weight or hammer head situated inside a gas-filled sealed housing, which housing is rigidly secured to the member.
- the base of the sealed housing rests on an anvil which is rigidly secured to the member, which anvil is provided with a central well at the bottom of which is placed an excitation pick-up and the weight comprises a projecting hammer which penetrates into the said well.
- damping means are inserted between the hammer and the excitation pick-up.
- the jack is a pneumatic jack and its cylindrical body comprises a partition against which abuts the piston when in the rest position, the partition is traversed by an orifice of small cross-section, an O-ring surrounding the orifice, and when the piston is in abutment against the ring, an intermediate space is left between the piston and the partition and the ring seals the intermediate space from the said orifice.
- One advantage of the invention resides in the fact that the excitation and measuring devices used, form a relatively light assembly, small enough to be handled under water.
- the devices according to the invention are of easy maintenance and very reliable. Moreover, their manufacturing cost is relatively low so that it is possible for each member requiring supervision, to be permanently equipped with one device, this permitting to multiply the measurements.
- FIG. 1 is an overall view of the device.
- FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view of FIG. 1 along line II--II.
- FIG. 1 shows a member 1 of a structure which can be part of an immersed structure for example, composed of steel tubes joined together, and supporting an oil-drilling platform.
- a mechanical excitation device 4 On the tubes are rigidly secured, by means of collars 2 and 3, first a mechanical excitation device 4 and second, a dynamical response pickup 5.
- the response pick-up 5 is placed close to the excitor 4. It can also be contained in the same housing as said excitor 4.
- FIG. 2 shows a cross-section on a larger scale of the mechanical excitation device 4 fitted on a tubular member 1 by means of a collar 2.
- the device 4 comprises a jack, which is preferably a double-acting pnuematic jack composed of a cylindrical body 6 and of a piston 7, both of which define two chambers 8 and 9 separated by the piston.
- the piston 7 is connected via a rod 10 to a mass or hammer head 11 weighing several scores of kilogrammes.
- the two chambers 8 and 9 are connected respectively, via flexible conduits 12 and 13, to a control valve which supplies one of the chamber with compressed air whilst the other is slightly pressurized, for example at the ambient atmospheric or hydrostatic pressure. This control valve enables to reverse the pressures.
- the hammer head 11 is for example of cylindrical shape and moves axially inside a sealed cylindrical housing 14 which guides it and is filled with air or gas.
- the bottom of the housing 14 rests on a block or anvil 15.
- the block 15 is provided on each one of its two faces parallel to the axis of the tube 1, with two parallel plates 16 forming a forked joint which supports an axle 17.
- Each axle 17 carries a threaded rod 18 which passes between the two plates and can pivot about the axle 17.
- a collar 2, constituted for example by a steel cable encircles the tube 1 and is joined by its two ends to the two threaded rods 18. Nuts 19 enable to tighten the collar and to lock the anvil 15 on the tube 1.
- anvil can be locked on the said tube by any other means equivalent to the collar 2.
- the anvil 15 comprises a central bore 15a at the bottom of which is placed a pick-up 20 which can be a power pick-up or a piezometric pressure pick-up.
- the hammer head 11 presents at its end facing the anvil a projecting part 11a which acts as a hammer, penetrates into the central bore 15a and thumps down on the pad 21 with a speed of between 5 and 5 m/sec. and a force of between 40 and 90 KN.
- the role of the pad 21 is to filter the high frequencies and to concentrate the impact energy in the frequency band containing the resonance frequencies of the member 1, which are relatively low frequencies, generally below 50 Hz.
- Another function of the pad 21 is to prevent the hammer head 11 from rebounding, which would interfere with the measurements.
- the cylinder 6 of the jack is connected to the housing 14 by means of screws 22 or any other equivalent securing means with interposition of a layer 23 of supple material such as for example a layer of elastomer, which is meant to absorb any reactions that the body of the jack 6 could have on the housing 14.
- the pick-up 20 is connected with the surface by way of a cable 25 which transmits the picked-up signals to an analog or digital recording device.
- the jack 6 comprises a partition wall 26 which is provided with a central orifice 27.
- the flexible lead 31 communicates with the surface and keeps the space 29 under low pressure when the piston 7 is immobilized in the high position.
- the mechanical excitation device 4 works as follows:
- the chamber 9 is under high pressure, the piston 7 abuts on the partition 26 and the hammer head is in the high position as shown in FIG. 1.
- the control valve situated out of the water is reversed so that the pressure increases progressively inside the chamber 8 and decreases inside the chamber 9.
- the piston is subjected to two antagonistic pressures.
- the total weight of the piston and of the hammer head is about 50 Kg, said hammer head 11 is propelled towards the anvil with an acceleration of about 200 m/s2 and therefore meets the anvil with a violent impact, which is communicated to the member 1 and shakes it.
- the reaction of the jack body 6 during this phase is absorbed by the damping layers 23 and 24 so that the member 1 is only excited by the impact of the hammer head 11 on the anvil.
- the pick-up 20 which is situated between the hammer head and the anvil picks up the forces transmitted by the hammer head to the anvil and from there to the member, and the variable signal delivered by the pick-up therefore corresponds to the mechanical excitation of the member which is applied locally thereto.
- the jack 6 which is provided with a partition 26 having an orifice 27 enables to apply the same acceleration every time to the hammer head and thus to excite every time the member 1 in the same conditions, this being essential to study the evolution of the response of the member.
- the excitation device 4 is a simple and inexpensive device, and that one such device can be permanently fitted on each member requiring control, this presenting the advantage of exciting the member in the same spot at each control, which is important if the differences in response are to be significant.
- a device further comprises a pick-up 5 designed to measure the dynamical response of the member 1 to the impact of the hammer head 11 on the anvil.
- the pick-up 5 can be for example an accelerometer placed inside a sealed container 32 fixed to the tube 1 by way of a collar 3 similar to the collar 2.
- the accelerometer comprises spikes 33, 34 which are held in contact with the tube 1.
- the spikes 33, 34 are preferably parallel to the axis of the jack 6 and detect any variations in the transverse acceleration of the tube in the direction parallel to the axis of the jack, which is the direction of the impact.
- the accelerometer 5 is connected with the surface by a cable 35 which relays the picked up signals to a processing apparatus or to an analog or digital recorder.
- the accelerometer 5 could of course be replaced by any other type of dynamical pick-up such as speed, stress, pressure, shift or position detector.
- the signals transmitted by the pick-up 5 are recorded over a specific period, several seconds, for example, which is longer than the period necessary to damp completely the response of the member 1 to the impact of the hammer head.
- the pick-up 20 measures a variable excitation signal f(t) and the pick-up 5 simultaneously measures a variable response signal x(t).
- successive impacts of the hammer head are initiated at intervals which are long enough for the response to each impact to have had time to damp completely and the excitation signals f(t) and response signals x(t) are averaged in order to facilitate the processing.
- the processing consists in subjecting the signals to a FOURIER transform, this permitting to calculate the complex functions F( ⁇ ) and X ( ⁇ ), after what the functions S FF ( ⁇ ) and S XF ( ⁇ ) are calculated as well as the transfer function H( ⁇ ) which is equal to the ratio of one of these two functions to the other, the modulus of which shows peaks which correspond to frequencies of resonance of the member 1. A large enough crack in that member will entail shifting of the peaks.
- the method and device according to the invention which consist in exciting each member of the structure individually, shows many advantages over the known methods and devices wherein the whole structure is excited.
- the devices used are simple. They comprise only one movable part situated inside a sealed housing. They contain no sub-marine electronic circuit. This simplicity of the design makes them very reliable.
- a device such as that used in the invention is perfectly safe from both sea pollution and personnel safety standpoints. There is absolutely no risk of sea pollution, should a hydraulic flexible pipe break and no risk of electrocution for the staff.
- a device according to the invention requires little space and its apparent weight when immersed is very reduced if not nil, this making it easily transportable and fittable under water by divers.
- the devices according to the invention have the advantage of only requiring very small additional equipments, i.e. a supply of compressed air which may be for example a cylinder of the type used in skindiving, a relief-valve, and a reversing valve permitting to release the impact.
- a supply of compressed air which may be for example a cylinder of the type used in skindiving, a relief-valve, and a reversing valve permitting to release the impact.
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